Debra Kent was a mover and shaker in the world of HIV/AIDS nonprofits, a professional fundraiser with an activist bent. But what she really wanted was to be a mom.She achieved that, if only for a few years.Kent died a few months ago of ovarian cancer. She was 55.Born in Brooklyn, Kent moved to California in her mid-20s and began her nonprofit work. She worked with women and transgender people as executive director of a health services agency in San Francisco. She helped establish a residential hospice for people with AIDS and worked for various AIDS foundations and research institutes.In 1994, she met Jamie Lamkin, a friend of friends who was vacationing on the West Coast. They cross-country dated for a while until Lamkin moved to California to be with Kent.Kent told Lamkin of her longing for a child.
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